Q: New MacBook Pro - Pop sounds when I play games?
Hello,
I've been having a rough two weeks... My first MacBook Pro came damaged in transit... The second sent out to me had dead thunderbolt ports... I ended up going in to the apple store where they swapped it out on the spot for this new one that I'm very, very happy with... but...
I'm interested in Second Life, Guild Wars 2, and World of Warcraft...
It seems like when I initially get going in one of these games, after they load, I'll hear this little "pop" sound.
After such, typically, I don't hear another until I reboot the machine and then launch a game AFTER rebooting... Restarting the games doesn't cause it to happen again typically.
It's typically one pop sound, it isn't overwhelmingly loud, at times it'll be faint. I'm very curious what this is and why it's doing this. I don't know enough about engineering of electronics to know, but I'm curious if its the amp in the speaker for some reason kicking in after the sound card or whatnot starts being utilized when something like these applications run?
At times it sounds almost as if its a click then a pop, but most of the time I'm interpreting it simply as a pop sound.
I'd really appreciate any input. I really hope this doesn't indicate hardware damage, I haven't even had this for a week yet, yet it's been doing it since day #1. I had figured that it would be extremely unlikely to have a third MacBook that had issues and would need a swap out again so I have just assumed its typical but I haven't read much about it online.
Thanks.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12)
Posted on Sep 27, 2016 4:16 PM